I'm not a huge homeschooling fan, but I don't see how this can fly. I don't think it will last.

There should always be a choice in schooling and if you don't feel that the government is doing a good job in your area you should have a wide options available for you in order to educate your children. Wheather it be private schooling, religous based school, home school, exct education is the most important part of your child's life and I feel that any choice should be placed soely in the hands of the parents to decide where they want to place their kids and if they think that they can teach them better than the public schools more power to them. I'd have them take some sort of test to make sure that they are meeting the curriculum requirements for their grade level but other than that its the parent's kid not the governments.

I wonder if the state supreme court will overturn it? Probably, as the ruling was really stupid...

This decision is definitely unconstitutional...as parents are and always will be the prime educators of their children. This stupid decision must have come out of the ninth district court...the most notorious /wacky liberal court in the nation.




Yup....on both counts. Our poor children.... first Municipal control..then state control...then national control...then world control...one world order style.

We are losing our natural freedoms little by little...like the frog slowly being boiled.

Dont you mean "not complying"?

KFC, you have a private message.

If parents are going to home school their kids, there should be a curriculum they have to follow. Otherwise, what's to make sure the kids will be prepared for college when the time comes?

Yes....thanks for noticing....at least I know you read it.....lol......I'll fix it. 

ok, I'll have to figure out how to find it....lol. 

says who?  I mean I know there are state tests that vary from State to State to make sure things are done right but who says the government should have anything to do with how we teach or discipline or bring up our kids? 

I'm all for education having all three of my boys graduate from college but if a parent decides only to educate thru high school and give them only basic courses so they can work the family business who are we to tell them they shouldn't?  Whose kids are they to begin with? 

 

It's that kind of thinking that justifies the outlawing of home-schooling. What if the parents only want to teach their children the bible? How are the kids going to earn a decent living?

Isn't that up to the parents NOT the government? 

Besides, I'm not against some regulations per se, I would just like to see the government stay out of the parent business.  It's starting to get kind of scary and I have a very bad feeling, this is just the beginning. 

Have you seen the reports on the kids standing up to authority on Good Morning America lately?  Scary.

Tova,

I can't figure out how to retrieve or for that matter even give messages.  Care to educate me on this?   On the old JU I knew but here I don't see any link. 

 

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Is at the top of the page...just click on private messages.

From the forums.  That only works in the forums, not the main blogs.

good to know...thanks

Most states do have a tough curriculm and guidlines for home schooling. That is never an excuse for legislating via the bench.

It also tells you with a banner on each page (or the forums) until you read them.